Clasp.



. PATENTED SEPT. 22,1903 c. J. WHITE CLASP.

APPLIOATIOH FILED HOV.19.1902.

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UNITEn ESTATES Patented September 22,1963.

PATENT OFFICE.

CLASP.

SPECIFICATION :corming part Of Letters latent No. 739,766, dated September 22, 1 903.

Application filed November 19,1902. Serial No. 131,979. (No model.)

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in clasps for supporting hose or other articles of v clothing; and the object of my improvement is eiiiciency in operation, especially with reference to the action of the jaws. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of my clasp. Fig. 2 isa sectional view of the same on the line a; a: of- Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation or edge view of the same,but with the jaws open instead of closed as in the preceding figures. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the lower end of the rear member of my clasp, and Fig. 5 is a detached front elevation of the elastic cushion for the said rear member.

My improvement is confined to the holdingjaws, which are mounted in any suitable manner for being opened and closed and when closed to be held in their closed position.

The particular members upon which my jaws are mounted are not essential to this invention; but in order to show a complete device I have mounted my improved jaws on the two members of a clasp substantially the same as to said members and the means for operating them as shown and described in my Patent No. 380,154, of March 27, 1888, for a springclasp.

' the said members being provided with a slide 10 for forcing the said two members together for closing the jaws or releasing the said two members for opening the jaws. The front jaw 7 is substantiallyadisk with a flat inner face and a central opening 13 through it of any desired contour, but preferably of the oblong form shown. The rear jaw 6 is provided any proper manner-as, for example, by-

means of the rim 11, whichpartially encircles the edge of the cushion and into which the cushion is compressed. On the central front face of the cushion 14: I form a projection 16 of the same general contour as the opening through the front jaw and of nearly the same size. face of the main body of the cushion should be as great or greater than the thickness of the metal in the said front jaw. When the rear jaw 6 is provided with the projection 12-, I form a corresponding depression 17, Fig. 2, in the rear face of the cushion. When the jaws are open, as shown in Fig. 3, a portion of the article to be hold is inserted between the inner or rear face of the front jaw and the front face of the cushion, after which the jaws are closed. The material clasped within the jaws will draw over the projection on the cushion and in part extend into or through the opening in the front jaw. The front projection on the rear jaw reinforces, backs up, and stifiens the projection on the cushion to keep "it from flattening down, thereby giving the said central projection approximately the same degree of compressibility as the rest of the cushion.

I claim as my invention- 1. A clasp comprising a pair of coacting jaws, one of which consists of a hat holdingface with a central opening therein and the other of which consists of an elastic projection for substantially filling and projecting through the said opening, an elastic cushion at the base of the said projection for abutting against the flat holding-face that surrounds the said central opening and a metal back for supporting the said elastic projection and cushion.

Its projection from the front r 2. A clasp, having mounted on one of its an inner face acting on the said cushion, and jaws an elastic cushion with a central proa central opening in the said face, substanjection on its face and a central depression tially as described.

in its back, the said jaw having also a cen- CHARLES J. WHITE. 5 tral projection that enters and fills the de- Witnesses:

pression in the back of the said cushion; the JAMES SHEPARD,

said clasp having on the other one of its jaws SHEFFIELD H. CLARKE. 

